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Zambian Children’s Fund (ZCF) News

Big and Joyous News!
The Chishawasha School had its official opening on May 16. Kathe
Padilla has written to us describing the event; copies will be
available on the bench outside of the FBC Office. It is also
described on the weekly blog of Sam Weeks (our Ithacan who is
volunteering at the orphanage and school for the year) at

More Good News!
Our ZCF Working Group- Ithaca is working hard to support and supply a
library for the Chishawasha School. We are working to send a suitcase
full of good African Stories and Folktales by the end of June. If
you would like to learn more about the Library Suitcase Project,
contact Barb Fry, Sue Eymann, Tony Lister or Louise Mudrak.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to
drip irrigation equipment and to the Chishawasha Kids With Cameras
project!! And to everyone who bought Julie Costie’s
bread with proceeds going to the ZCF Ambuya Project!

Our ZCF Working Group
has been busy and is again swinging into full action this fall.
We work hard on behalf of the Chishawasha Children’s Home of
Zambia (CCHZ), laugh a lot, feel good about what we do, and stay very
humble as we learn a lot together. We meet at least once a month in
homes or churches (First Baptist and Unitarian Churches are the
anchors) and include anyone in the area who wants to work with us.
Call Louise Mudrak if you want to discuss joining (273-3825).

Sustainable Agriculture
–
We worked with Chapin Living Waters (www.chapinlivingwaters.org) and
sent a Super Bucket Drip Irrigation kit to Chishawasha. The
gardens are prospering and help contribute to the food supply at the
orphanage. Chapin has shipped a container of Bucket Kits to
Malawi. This fall we will be working to get kits shipped from
Malawi to CCHZ and to see if we can support two house mothers and
possibly an older student or two to go to Malawi for training.

Kids With Cameras – This was sent by Klaus
Schoenwiese, the photographer we helped support to conduct a photo
workshop with Chishawasha students :
Both Smithsonian Magazine {November Issue}and
the Kids with Cameras have chosen to feature our Chishawasha Photo
Workshop nationwide in print and online. Our own online
Students' Gallery will go live in November 2007 to compliment these
nationwide publications. The student's photographs will then also be
available to a general public as high quality photo art via secure
online purchase. Until then they are to remain unpublished. If you can
help promoting our project or are professionally interested in a
private viewing, please don't hesitate to contact me... we have an
exhibition proposal package ready for presentation and are interested
in establishing contact to exhibition venues.

Meanwhile - You can already get to know my students and see a
project trailer with my own photography on our new project website
address below. Starting November 1 it will also host the Students'
Gallery.

Our Working Group will assist Klaus in seeking upscale photo
venues nationwide (let us know if you have contacts & ideas)
and in developing and producing print materials to accompany the
exhibition.

Update:

Chishawasha
Students’ Photos Available for Purchase Beginning Nov. 1

Last spring, members of First Baptist
generously supplied funds for the purchase of cameras for use by
Chishawasha orphanage students who participated in the Kids With
Cameras workshop. Prints of the photos taken by the kids were featured
in the November Smithsonian Magazine and will become available for sale
online beginning November 1st at: www.kids-with-camerasandwww.tribeofman.com/zambia

The purchase price is $200 for each
photo. You will receive a high quality, poster sized print
suitable for display on a church, office or gallery wall. This price
will pay for very high end digitizing and the cost of entering another
copy of the print into a Traveling Exhibition of Chishawasha Student
Work to be displayed at prestigious galleries and museums throughout
the nation. The purpose of the Exhibition is to display the
student work and to educate people about the millions of children
orphaned by HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. If you have any questions,
contact the Zambian Children’s Fund Working Group-Ithaca &
First Baptist.

What does the Lord
require of you?
To do Justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.
~Micah 6:8~